The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHarper and brothers, 1876 - 503 pages |
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Page vii
... seems to me not well adapted to enable us to establish the foundations of the science of distribution on a secure basis . To do this , uniformity of treatment appeared to me essential , both as a matter of principle , and to avoid all ...
... seems to me not well adapted to enable us to establish the foundations of the science of distribution on a secure basis . To do this , uniformity of treatment appeared to me essential , both as a matter of principle , and to avoid all ...
Page viii
... had given an outline of the distribution of the varieties or races of man , I should have departed from the plan of my work for no sufficient reason . Anthropology is a science by itself ; and it seems better to omit it viii PREFACE .
... had given an outline of the distribution of the varieties or races of man , I should have departed from the plan of my work for no sufficient reason . Anthropology is a science by itself ; and it seems better to omit it viii PREFACE .
Page ix
... seems better to omit it altogether from a zoological work , than to treat it in a necessarily superficial manner . The best method of illustrating a work of this kind was a matter requiring much consideration . To have had a separate ...
... seems better to omit it altogether from a zoological work , than to treat it in a necessarily superficial manner . The best method of illustrating a work of this kind was a matter requiring much consideration . To have had a separate ...
Page xiii
... seems to me one of those cases in which orthographical accuracy should give way to priority , and still more to con- venience . In combining and arranging so much detail from such varied sources , many errors and omissions must ...
... seems to me one of those cases in which orthographical accuracy should give way to priority , and still more to con- venience . In combining and arranging so much detail from such varied sources , many errors and omissions must ...
Page xxiv
... seem , however , to be of sufficient importance to justify me in asking my readers to correct them in their copies . Page 93 , 12 lines from foot , for Hocco read Hoazin . 99 97 , line 2 , for Hocco read Hoazin . 99 147 , 13 lines from ...
... seem , however , to be of sufficient importance to justify me in asking my readers to correct them in their copies . Page 93 , 12 lines from foot , for Hocco read Hoazin . 99 97 , line 2 , for Hocco read Hoazin . 99 147 , 13 lines from ...
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes Arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe European excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic genus Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions